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Issue 39 (December 2018) ISSN 1868-2456 - DOI 10.21570/EDGG.PG.39 Journal of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group Grassland Dry Eurasian the of Journal PALAEARCTIC GRASSLANDS PALAEARCTIC 2 Palaearctic Grasslands (December 2018) Table of Contents Palaearctic Grasslands ISSN 1868-2456 DOI 10.21570/EDGG.PG39 Palaearctic Grasslands, formerly published under the names Bulletin of the Euro- Editorial 3 pean Dry Grassland Group (Issues 1-26) and Bulletin of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (Issues 27-37) is the journal of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG). It usually appears in four issues per year. Palaearctic Grasslands publishes news and announcements of EDGG, its projects, related organisations and its members. At News 4 the same time it serves as outlet for scientific articles and photo contributions. Palaearctic Grasslands is sent to all EDGG members of the group and, together with all previous issues, it is also freely available at http://www.edgg.org/ publications.htm. EDGG Publications 6 The copyright of the included texts, photographs, and other figures remains with their authors. If you wish to re-use them or parts of them, please, obtain the writ- ten consent of the authors first. Scientific articles (Research Articles, Reviews, Forum Articles, Scientific Reports) Peregrym, M. et al. The impact of 8 should be submitted to Jürgen Dengler ([email protected]), fol- Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) on lowing the Author Guidelines published in Palaearctic Grasslands 37, 6–8. They are subject to editorial review, with one member of the Editorial Board serving as Sci- the National Nature Parks, Bio- entific Editor and deciding about acceptance, necessary revisions or rejection. sphere and Naturе Reserves of the Steppe Zone and Crimean All other text contributions (News, Announcements, Short Contributions, Book Reviews,…) should be submitted to Anna Kuzemko ([email protected]) Mountains within Ukraine AND Idoia Biurrun ([email protected]). Please check a current issue of Palae- arctic Grasslands for the format and style. Deadline for submission to the next issue is 20 January 2019 Photo contributions (photos for general illustrative purposes with captions; pro- Short Contribution 15 posals for Photo Stories; candidate photos for the Photo Competition) should be submitted to both Photo Editors, Rocco Labadessa ([email protected]) AND Jalil Noroozi ([email protected]). Deadline for submissions to the next Photo Competition on "Grassland people" is 20 January 2019. Contributions to the sections "Recent Publications of our Members" and Photo Story 17 "Forthcoming Events" should be sent to Iwona Dembicz ([email protected]). Photos included in submissions have always to be delivered in two forms, embed- ded in the document and as separate jpg (or tiff) files with sufficient resolution for printing (i.e. not less than 1 MB). Book Review 21 Editorial Board CHIEF EDITOR: Rocco Labadessa, Italy Recent Publications of our 22 Anna Kuzemko, Ukraine Ashley Lyons, UK Members Lorna Marcham, UK DEPUTY CHIEF EDITORS: Jim Martin, Ireland Idoia Biurrun, Spain James Moran, Ireland Jürgen Dengler, Switzerland Jalil Noroozi, Austria Forthcoming Events 23 Arkadiusz Nowak, Poland EDITORAL BOARD: Salza Palpurina, Bulgaria Dolores Byrne, Ireland Nina Polchaninova, Ukraine Iwona Dembicz, Poland Solvita Rūsiņa, Latvia Edy Fantinato, Italy Stuart Smith, UK Magdalena Firganek-Fulcher, UK Imprint 24 Laura Sutcliffe, Germany Paul Goriup, UK Péter Török, Hungary Riccardo Guarino, Italy Atushi Ushimaru, Japan Richard Jefferson, UK Orsolya Valkó, Hungary Gwyn Jones, UK Stephen Venn, Finland On front cover page: Euphorbia myrsinites in calcareous grasslands of Natura 2000 site “Murgia Alta”, southern Italy. Photo: R. Labadessa. Palaearctic Grasslands (December 2018) 3 Editorial Dear readers, lications of our Members” and “Forthcoming Events” you can find a lot of useful information. We are pleased to present a new issue of Palae- We wish you a pleasant reading on the eves of arctic Grasslands, the last in 2018. In this issue, Christmas and the New Year, we hope that you we provide updated information on the represen- will productively spend the winter processing ma- tativeness of different countries within the Palae- terial from the last field season and some of these arctic realm among the members of the EDGG. results will appear next year on the pages of Two new members joined our team - Lorna and Palaearctic Grasslands. Richard, who took over the functions of Linguistic Editors. Their vision of the further development of Anna Kuzemko, Chief Editor Palaearctic Grasslands, as well as a map of the ([email protected]) density of the group members, can be found on page 4. Our Photo Editors Rocco and Jalil continue to work actively not only on illustrating the journal with beautiful photographs, but also on preparing the sections “Photo Story” and “Photo Competi- tion”. This information is presented on page 5. Special issues of scientific journals are an impor- tant part of EDGG activities, so pay attention to the fact that you still have the opportunity to sub- mit abstracts for possible publication in the Spe- cial Issue of Flora on Ecology and Evolution of Steppe Biodiversity in collaboration with EDGG (see announcement on page 6). On page 7 you can find information about the recently published 13th EDGG Special Feature of Tuexenia on Conser- vation, management and restoration of semi- natural and natural grasslands in Central Europe. The main material of the current issue is an article about a little-studied impact of artificial light at night (ALAN) on protected areas of Ukraine, which was prepared with the cooperation of Ukrainian and Hungarian scientists (pp. 8-14). A "Short Con- tribution" on the 90th anniversary of the Ukrainian steppe reserve also concerns protected steppe areas of Ukraine (pp. 15-16). In the “Photo Story” section you can enjoy beauti- ful photos of the plant world of ancient burial mounds – kurgans of the Carpathian basin in the Hungarian lowlands. And, of course, under our Galium flowers on a land snail (probably Helicella itala) on Cirsium tuberosum in a semi-dry grassland in Navarre, traditional headings "Book Review", “Recent Pub- Spain. Photo: J. Dengler. 4 Palaearctic Grasslands (December 2018) News Density of EDGG members On 27 November 2018, the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group had 1,323 members, with an average increment of 118 members per year. All the continents of the world are represented, except for Antarctica, with members coming from 67 different countries. Countries with the highest number of members are Germany, Greece and Italy, with 262, 125 and 78 members, respectively. However, when member density per million inhabitants is concerned, the top three positions are occupied by Estonia, Greece and Latvia, with 12.91, 11.60 and 8.20 EDGG members per million inhabitants, respectively. We encourage new members from all over the Palaearctic realm to join the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group. Researchers from underrepresented areas like the North Africa, the Middle East, Middle, Central and East Asia are especially welcome! Edy Fantinato Board of Palaearctic Grasslands is still growing Our editorial board continues to grow. We are pleased to introduce two new linguistic editors - Lorna and Richard and their vision of the future development of the Palaearctic Grasslands. I would like to see Palaearctic Grasslands develop into a highly respected repository for the publica- tion of high quality articles on Palaearctic grass- lands. It would also be good to encourage the sub- mission of more articles with a nature conservation theme and possibly papers on aspects of the fauna of semi-natural grasslands. Richard Jefferson I hope the journal will provide information and in- spiration for exciting new collaborations in research and conservation, by being informative, profes- sional, accessible and beautiful. Lorna Marcham Lorna Marcham (Linguistic Editor ) Richard Jefferson (Linguistic Editor) [email protected] [email protected] Palaearctic Grasslands (December 2018) 5 Photo Story and Photo Competition In this issue we are pleased to announce the third call for You are invited to send up to three high-quality photo- the sections “Photo Story” and “Photo Competition”, de- graphs within the competition theme (full size JPEG or TIFF voted to the beauty of Palaearctic grasslands. images, at least 300 dpi) together with captions giving in- Photo Story is an open space where members can submit formation on the subject (species name, date, place name) their own photo collection on a certain grassland-related and, possibly, technical details (camera, lens, aperture and topic of their choice. High-quality photos should be pro- exposure time). The selection will be made by a jury of at vided together with their captions (at least species names least five members from the Editorial Board of the journal. or landscape description), a brief text and possibly other The three best shots will be awarded with full space in the graphical elements (like a map or a drawing). The selection next issue, but we reserve the right to use further submit- of photos should fit for 1-4 pages and the proponents ted photos for illustrative purposes in other parts of the should already propose a preliminary layout (in PDF or MS issue. Word format), which will be finally typeset by Editors. As If you feel you can contribute with your shots, don’t be an example, you may take a look at the Photo Story at shy! Everyone can join the competition without the need pages 17-20. of being a professional photographer! Photo Competition is a call for grassland enthusiasts, who If you want to contribute to Photo Story or Photo Competi- can challenge each other on a predefined grassland theme. tion (next deadline 20 January 2019), or if you simply want The theme of next EDGG Photo Competition is “Grassland your photographs published in the journal, please submit people”, dedicated to the role of indigenous women and them together with required information to Rocco men as key actors in local grassland ecosystems.